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Goa 2100: the transition to a sustainable RUrban design A REVI, S PRAKASH, R MEHROTRA, G K BHAT, K GUPTA and R GORE Aromar Revi is a Founding ABSTRACT This paper describes how the city of Panjim (capital of Goa, in India) Director of TARU, a leading and its wider region could meet the multiple goals that sustainable development South Asian research requires – combining high quality living conditions, a successful economy, and consulting firm. Trained in sustainable levels of resource use and waste generation. It outlines the method- technology, law, ologies used and describes the changes needed in the use and management of water management and finance from the IIIT (Delhi) and the and land, infrastructure, buildings and transport systems, and in the governance University of Delhi, he has framework needed to underpin such changes. It uses the term “RUrban” to worked for two decades highlight how this requires a sustainable integration of rural and urban communi- on national and ties, where rural living standards come to match those in urban areas and where international long-range cities become net producers of ecological services rather than relying on regional strategy, sustainability, and and global resources and waste sinks. social, economic and environmental change KEYWORDS rural–urban / sustainable cities / sustainable development assignments. He was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 1990, and has contributed to the I. INTRODUCTION design of India’s national public housing programme and to housing and urban a. Background develo